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This was posted 4-5 years ago by a blogger, but it is applicable today, since this keeps repeating.......not my writing.



With all the recent troubles we’re again being invited to an honest and open conversation about race, or said differently, the browbeatings will be resumed. Try this for honest and open: many of us, probably most of us, are tired of your whining, your so-called grievances, your violence and crime, your insults and threats, your witless blather and pornographic demeanor—all of it. You’re not quite 13% of the population yet everything has to be about you, all day, every day. With you, facts aren’t facts, everything’s a kozmik krisis, and abusive confrontations are your go-to.

Here’s the thing: some of us despise you, although fewer than you believe, but most of us plain don’t care about you or your doings. There was a time when we did care, but you betrayed our good will and played us for fools. We laugh about it now, but we actually believed you wanted equal opportunity and mutual respect and to live in harmony—all that stuff. Ain’t it a hoot? Imagine our embarrassment.

We talk among ourselves just like you do. It’s true, we have “frank and open discussions” when you’re not around. Why? Partly because it’s exhausting to tippy-toe around you. Partly because you think it’s your celestial right to tell us what we can say. And partly because you’re alarmingly aggressive or painfully dim-witted by turns. We never know which “you” will pop out of the box, or when. But mainly because you’ve revealed yourself as grasping opportunists without honor or principle. There’s your deal-breaker. There’s more.

During the recent riots you expected us to believe heisting snack food then torching the place was “standing up for justice”. When we didn’t buy it, you told us the looting and arson wasn’t done by the rioters after all, no, all the bad stuff was done by rioters from out of town. Apparently you think it makes a difference to us. And if we don’t fall for that one, you tell us you’re the real victims, you’re the ones “hit hardest” because the neighborhoods you looted and burned are, um, looted and burned.

We’ve never stood in your way but we don’t really care if you have good neighborhoods or not. The evidence says you don’t care either, unless we build and maintain them for you, what your enablers call “investments in urban communities.” They don’t mention the return on our past “investments”. Our former neighborhoods weren’t improved by your arrival. Your contempt for ordinary civility tells us no level of “investment” would make a difference. Listen up. It’s simple. Just like our neighborhoods are our responsibility, so are your neighborhoods your responsibility, not ours. Your clownish leaders will tell you otherwise but they’ve always been your responsibility and they always will be your responsibility. Accept it or don’t, you’re the ones who live in them. There’s more.

Your air conditioned, smart phone equipped, EBT-financed “poverty” doesn’t wash to begin with, yet you’d have us believe poverty causes crime. There’s no payday for assault and rape and random killing. Police say 20% of your criminal violence is related to dope-dealing, okay, business disputes of a sort, but it says the rest of it is largely pro bono. We also notice you have a working knowledge of jury nullification and take pride in not “snitching”, typical gang behavior.

We say “what you think, you do. What you do, you are.” We know what you think—we hear it every waking minute. We know what you do. How could we not know what you are? Just so it gets said, crime causes poverty. It drives away productive people, their businesses and the opportunities you said you wanted. More bad news: you’re free to accuse them of anything you wish but they’re not coming back.

Schools haven’t been educating our kids for a long time. They’re too busy conjuring up new ways to teach yours, in fact, we’re beginning to think yours are the only ones who matter. There’s always some new scheme claiming dazzling success which, in the end, amounts to handing out the answers with the tests, or taking the annoying hard stuff out of the coursework, or entering unearned grades by hand. Whatever they’re doing they’re doing it wrong. Your kids are telling us, in every way they know how, they have neither the interest nor the inclination for academics. Perhaps we should listen. If what they want is “out” it’s worth considering and probably worth encouraging.

You tell us the schools have “failed to meet their needs.” And what are their needs, pray tell? Higher standards and tougher tests? Stricter rules and a dress code? Or some alternate universe where credit is earned for putting teachers in the ER, or for a string of abortions before the tenth grade? If you’d tell us what their needs are we’d at least know what needs we’re failing to meet. Until then we’ll mark it down for what it is, another lame excuse. They’re supposed to be schools, not day care or orphanages or theme parks.

You pester us with the “civil rights movement” of fifty years ago as though it happened last week, with tedious 1960s footage and cloying voice-overs, in an endless loop, like Groundhog Day, decade after decade. It’s understandable, you haven’t met any real resistance since those days. Breaking news: none of it matters any more, it all devolved into just another swindle, an extortion racket, “pay up or we’ll make a stink—and the bad optics are on you”.

Schools now teach something called White Privilege, which claims no overt act is necessary for us to be racist, in fact, absence of such acts is said to be direct evidence. It’s the “original sin” concept in a different wrapper, meaning our putative racism is bone deep and can’t be discharged by good works. Even so, they say we must atone in perpetuity for being white. They suggest we devote our lives in selfless service to you. No. Sorry. Whatever white privilege there may be, it isn’t enough. In fact, being subjected to White Privilege prattle is worth a couple of privileges.

Speaking of privilege, 60% of your college grads—and 20% of all of you—are employed by government. The intent is to create an artificial middle class of course, hence the trivial positions with imaginative titles and weighty salaries. In the lower reaches it’s the quota hires, typically unqualified. It’s a great offer. You pretend you’re doing something useful and we pretend to believe you. The rest of your grads are largely diversity directors, window dressing, teachers of dubious “studies” and improbable “histories”, and similar warehousing schemes for the otherwise unemployable. It’s as good as it’s ever going to get, except for those on the skinny end of the bell curve—for whom we have genuine, i.e., earned respect. You’d be a fool to leave it on the table, for as long as it lasts.

So here’s the deal. If you want to know what we really think of you, the answer is we don’t, unless you’re making yourself unavoidable or we’re cleaning up your latest mess. We can safely rely on you to make astonishingly irresponsible choices and blame us for the consequences. And you’ll demand we make good on them for you. We won’t take a chance on your sincerity ever again. Take it somewhere else, you have no credibility left with us. You’re a net liability, predictable to the point of surety. So we attend to our own lives and our own problems. It’s as it should be. We recommend it. As for you, frankly my dear, we don’t give a damn.

Thanks.

This country needs more straight honest talk.

I suspect that the person who wrote that doesn't know any black people. He/she is probably from some remote area where overly-simplistic logic prevails. I'm a conservative and far from an SJW but this blurb was mostly crap. There are plenty of good black people and lousy white people and vice versa. This idea that our race dictates our character is flawed and that is obvious to people who actually know and interact with people of different races. I can see in my area that times are changing. There are a lot more successful, intact black families moving into my neighborhood. There are still cultural problems with the underclass (black and white) but it is not universal. Poor white people commit crimes and have illegitimate kids too. The solution in my opinion is twofold: opportunity and social values. Trump is trying to bring jobs/opportunity back to the U.S. We also need people to adopt traditional family values. The second part is the tricky one since we are in a culture war against nihilists.

I don't suspect as you do about the nature of the person writing, because that piece is nicely aimed at a very regrettable situation and some particular wrongdoers. Your post would seem to indicate that you have missed the point by assuming that the writer is making a sweeping general statement about a race - and I think that not the case. I think the writer is aiming at various manipulators who have nastily used a racial situation.

Although I generally agree with your take on plenty of good folks of various colors/stripes and more than enough bad folks in the variety, I don't think ignorance or knowledge of such aspects was involved in that piece - it was written for a specific purpose to illuminate an important point.

The situation America currently is in was baked in the cake when boatloads of Africans started being unloaded on its shores.

The American left has seemingly abandoned the melting pot idea. Assimilation is a good thing. A nation with a common value system is a good thing. Too much immigration is destructive, particularly from cultures that don't share our values.

“I can see in my area that times are changing. There are a lot more successful, intact black families moving into my neighborhood.”

Where is your area?
Sometimes it is necessary to speak in generalities. Generalities aren’t formed in a vacuum.
I found most of the OP’s post to hit very near near the mark.

Philadelphia

Sounds a little like it was written by a Brit. More crap to divide everyone. Don't paint a whole race with the same brush. There's a growing conservative movement growing among blacks and I'm happy to see it. I'd welcome anyone who's trying to make a good, decent, principled conservative life for themselves.

Its about psychographics not demographics. That should be written to leftists not just blacks. Look at the white trash antifa types out their. I'd hate to be lumped in with them just because I'm white.

Bb

Some excellent points made by all. Most poignantly by Burleyboy, I'd hate to be judged with the Antifa rioters.

I think, in the end, it's once more an urban v.s. rural dichotomy. The high density urban environment allows for a higher level of anonymity, not unlike artificial high density communities on the internet, really. Without social structures, still found in rural areas, such as churches, active chambers of commerce, Lions clubs, etc, the urban ghetto becomes the real world equivalent of an online troll fest.

Well said

And a full impact, direct blow to the nail head is delivered.

MM